Sunday, December 19, 2010

There is now a long clip on YouTube from the TV show mentioned in my last post, Academy Night.

This clip, which is the first part of the show, has Omigawa Chiaki walking around the part of Tokyo that Soredemo Machi ga Mawatteiru is set in, visiting the grocery store, the fish store, and the cafe (where Yuuki Aoi is waiting). When Chiaki visits the shrine, she prays for a second season for SoreMachi, lol.

I think this gives us a pretty good idea of what her ordinary voice sounds like. Not much like her normal seiyuu voice, but also not as high as the couple of clips I linked to in a comment on that last post.

Following the SoreMachi feature is an Amagami SS feature, interviewing Asumi Kana, who plays Miya.

Thanks for the video! I say this all the time, but I really wish Omigawa would use her normal voice more often in her work. Her normal voice actually sounds very cute (and Chiaki is very cute herself) whereas the voice she uses at work sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me lol.

It was fun to discover the real life location of Seaside. Its anime counterpart does look a lot like it.

Hashihime

The "Hashihime" or "Bridge Princesses," are characters in the novel The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari 源氏物語）. They are daughters of a disgraced prince, living alone with him in a small house at Uji, outside Kyoto. They are important characters in the last ten chapters of the novel.

The Genji can be considered the first real novel in the history of the world. It was written around 1000 AD by a Japanese court lady known as Lady Murasaki, or Murasaki Shikibu.

I think contemporary Japanese literature, including anime and manga, continues to preserve aspects of the Genji, among them sensitive psychological observation, a general passion for romance, and romantic interest in young girls. The main hero of the thousand-page novel, Prince Genji, had a number of present and former girlfriends living in his palace, and basically abducted his principal wife Murasaki when she was ten, marrying her when she was around 15.

notes

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